A couple of weeks ago I came across a neat tool for creating email newsletters, called Flashissue. My intention was to create my own, but my dinosaur of a computer isn't compatible with Google Chrome, which the program operates in. I was planning to patiently wait for my partner to return with his new(er) laptop, but that isn't happening any time soon. So I decided to stop selfishly making you wait, because they provide really stellar instructions that could have you spreading your news in no time. I will, however, give you the gist of things. If you blog, or plan to blog, in your classroom, with Flashissue you can take your favourite posts from the month and turn them into a newsletter that you could email out to parents. Or if you blog for personal or business reasons, you could send your highlights to friends, family, clients, or your personal fan club to keep everyone in the loop. Either way, it looks like an easy way to keep people up to date without spending a lot of additional time. And time is something teachers (especially new teachers) never have enough of.

Speaking of teaching, maybe once I re-enter the workforce in January I will finally be able to upgrade my old desktop to the innovative MacBook Wheel. That way I can stop blogging about how incompatible my computer is and start living again.

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Miss W

I work at a summer recreation camp at an inner city school alongside some of the most inspiring young people I have ever met. I am an internship away from finishing my education degree and I love baking and practicing yoga. But not at the same time.